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...Your article on the President's income tax returns restores my battered confidence in him. Though I don't know about ITT or Vesco or milk supports, I do know about taxation. All of the details you have reported show that there is no "scandal...
...Vesco and Billionaire Recluse Howard Hughes. Doar also said that his staff would "investigate whether or not there was criminal fraud for which the President is responsible" in his tax returns for 1969 through 1972. Declared Representative M. Caldwell Butler, a Republican member of the committee from Virginia, in a metaphor of dubious reassurance to the White House as it entered upon the crucial week: "The staff has put down its shotgun and picked up a rifle...
...shouting, waving his arms, steaming with barely controlled indignation, Bonner put on a Chautauqua performance for four hours. He claimed that his client had been unfairly afflicted by the prosecution with the blight of "Vescoitis"-the implication that Stans had been controlled in thought and deed by Financier Robert Vesco. According to the indictment, Stans and Mitchell had tried to help Vesco with the SEC after the moneyman had made a secret $200,000 cash contribution to Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign...
...Damascus Road. The strongest charges against Stans were that he had committed perjury before the grand jury while testifying about the Vesco affair. To explain away two of the counts, Bonner reminded the jury that at the time he had testified Stans had been desperately worried about the near fatal illness of his wife. Bonner inquired of the jurors if they had ever paid a hospital visit to someone they loved who was on the edge of death. "Do you think that would affect you?" he asked...
...week started out well for the Nixon campaign to head off impeachment: Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and ex-Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans were acquitted of criminal conspiracy and obstructing justice in connection with a $200,000 contribution to Nixon's reelection campaign from financier Robert Vesco...